Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:37:49 -0500
From: Natalie Maynor
Subject: Re: reasonably bizarre anymore!
> Natalie! It's the vowel of 'foot', not 'boot'! Nobody (I hope) says
> "POOL-its-er"! No wonder it doesn't sound good to you!
I didn't say it didn't sound good to me -- just that I say it [pju].
Either [pu] or [pU] would sound unusual to me, although now that you
mention it, I realize that I've probably heard [pU] and never [pu].
--Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)